The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-20

Boston Herald.
As it is necessary in order to be in the
style at present to have many changes
of dress, some variations of trimming
are resorted to, by means of which the
toilet may be altered to serve in many
ways. For young girls and young
women it is best to have fiat waists.
without trimmings particularly in the
case of garments intended for evening
wear. A waist can always be trimmed
but when trimmed it must remain so, as
all ornaments and work leave marks
which render them perfectly useless
when removed There are many WAYS
low necked waists. If, for example,
something less dressy is required than a
lOw-necked or open waist. there are
''guimpes that serve admirably for the
purpose. These ''guimPes" are of white.
black or cream point d'esprit" tulle. or
of black brocaded gauze worked with
pearl or with crystal beads. There
are several shapes for these
guimpes. Some form waists which are
shorter than the waist IF the dress. and
are either cut like the latter or like
blouse. The blouse is gathered full
around the neck and has a plain or fancy
velvet collar, with beads. The beads are
often on a double band of gauze. They
are rather large and are arranged in
three rows. On the lower part of the
guimpe, whether it is i'm waist or blouse
shape. there is beaded fringe or lace.
The belt is of ribbon to match the toilet,
or of velvet like the collar The sleeves
are generally wide and have lengthwise
pleats. Waists may also be covered by
crossed, draped and pleated fichus. They
are white and pink, white and blue. or
white with the color of the dress. The
pleats alternate in two cOlors. Half high
crepe de chine fichus serve over low
necked waists. Plain, high-necked
waists are made dressy by the addition
of some draped lace placed down the
front, and by a ruching of the same
around the neck, or by a piece of lace
falling fiat like a turned down collar.
The same trimming is on the lower
Fine checked materials are increasing
in popularity, and will be used this IA
son both for house and street dresses.
All the checks are small. and the mate
rails smooth in finish and soft in texture.
Some of the lighter materials for indoor
wear have the checks marked off with
the finest silk threads in white or cream
shades, the grounds being in soft tones
of brown or gray. Very pretty pattern
robes for house dresses are shown in fine
camelettes in plain cOlOrs, accompanied
rial to correspond. This embroidered
piece is usually in part open work with
silk threads worked heavy in two con-
| trasting cOlors. The robes are shown i'm
a pretty shade of nay blue or Spanish
| tobacco brown, and also in delicate pink
and cream color. On the dark blue the
embroidery is wrought in bright
red and cream white threads. On
the brown the cOlors are red and
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pale blue and yellow threads are used
| Fine challie is fabric in demand fol
home and evening gowns, and both in
| pattern and in the manner in which 1T /.
usually made up it recalls the style o
many years ago. The grOundings are il
delicate evening tints, usually pail
pink or cream, and the scattered chair
figures are printed in darker colOrs, com
prising brown and red principally, bu
intermixed with touches Of other tints
Some few of the dresses have pOintes
borders from six to ten inches deep. 4
very quaint and effective dress is of pinl
challie strewn with scattered cOnnecte,
SPRAYS of the old fashioned flowers com
monty known as bleeding hearts. Thes
are in deeper tones of pink shading 4
red, with the foliage in brown tones. Tn
petticOai is simply made with a pleating q
the same about the foot, and is wei
drawn back. The overtiress is in tn
form of long pOlOnaise, reaching almOs
to the foot of the petticoat. The Skin
portion is slightly wrinkled across tn
front. and the back made very full an
draped in Puffs. The waist is close-fii
ting, and the oddity of the material i
added to by the sleeves, which hang i
great balloon puffs from shoulders to el
bows. where they are gathered into dee
cuffs buttoning up the inside seams
There is not even an attempt at trim
ming, the simplicity and the style c
making being especially adapted to tn
material One If the greatest advan
tsxes of all figured stuffs is that they n
quire no trimming of any description
and if any is used it should be in til
form of plain collar. and cuffs of dar
velvet.